LAYING COMPETITIONS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1378, 2 March 1912, Page 14

LAYING COMPETITIONS.

The following are the returns for tho forty-eighth week of tho New Zealand Utility Poultry Club's seventh egg-lay-ing competition for fowls, ending February 28:— 3 Total Total for to week, date, A. H. Padman, Adelaide, White Leghorns 19 1,069 A. It. Browne, Greenineadows, White Leghorns ... 23 1,319 T. Collins, Waiwetu, White Leghorns 25 1,183 C. M. Peek, Avondale, Black Orpingtons ..v.; 11 1,033 G. 11. Burnett, Leeston, B. Leghorns 23 1,142 Heretaunga Poultry Co., Silvevstrcam, •W. Leghorns 30 1,345 W. Ilnlpin, Greemneadows, White Leghorns 28 1,225 W. Knight, Hutt, No. 1 W. Leghorns 28 1,188 A. E. Wilson, Shirley, Whito Wyandottes 32 1,150 W. Knight, Hutt, White Leghorns . 10 1,050 Verrnll Bros., Swannanoa, W. Leghorns 17 1,132 A. E. Wilson, Shirley, W. Leghorns 10 1.054 Rangiuru Egg Ranch, Otaki, White Leghorns 10 1,189 D. Stewart, Normanbj", Taranaki, White Leghorns 18 919 A. B. Menzies, Addington, Rose-combed W.L :.. 9 980 Edgar Hall, Lower Hutt, B. Orpingtons 7 970 C. Hammond, Ruakura, W. ■ Plymouth Rocks • 31 1,131 G. Finn, Wellington, Whit* Leghorns 10 1,057 Dominion Poultry Plant, Coromandel, W. Leghorns ... 18 1,121 A. R. Browne, Greenmeadows, W. Leghorns 13 1,191 Mrs. R. W. Hawke, Papanui, White Leghorns ....'. 27 1,126 Mrs. J. Mills, Dunedin, W. Leghorns 29 1,270 R. Willis and Sons, New Brighton, B. Orpingtons 11 922 H. Meadows, Spreydon, W. Leghorns 17 1,056 P. J.'Keller, Rolleston, Campines 23 ■ BC9 W.- G. Goodwin, Thames, W. Leghorns 21 1,190 R. Willis and Sons, New Brighton, W. Leghorns ... 19 1,129 A. W. Irvine, Epsom, White Leghorns 18 1,174 T. Kennedy, Rangiora, Silver Wyandottes 31 1,300 James Ashton, Hanmer, Silver Wyandottes 13 821 P. J. Keller, Rolleston, W. Leghorns 24 1,130 G. H. Bradford, Oust, W. Leghorns 18 727 D. Y. Gibson, Herbert, W. Leghorns : 27 1,234 W. Nixon, Burwood, White Leghorns 29 1,347 H. -M. Bannehr, Ricoarton, W. Plymouth Rocks 27 921 Thomas Frcthey, Martin- ■ borough, Buff Leghorns ... 17 1,170 C. L. Bridges, Wanganui, W. Leghorns 21 1,063 James Maxwell, Masterton, B. Orpingtons 12 . 850 G. H. Robinson, Christohurch, W. Leghorns ... 18 1,013 A .E. Kent, Shirloy, Whito Leghorns : 20 1,119 W. Balch, Belfast, White Leghor.is 28 1,131 Heretaunga Paultry Co., Silvorstreain. W. Leghorns 21 1,267 N. Solomon, Westport, Whito Leghorns 14 1,084 A. W. Irvine, Epsom, Whits ' Loghorns 22 1,063 G. H. Robinson, Christchurch, B. Orpingtons ... 15 . 1,185 A. ■ Stevenson, Wellington, White Leghorns 28 1,181 H. Leger, Weraroa, White Leghorns 23 1,117 W.' O. Sail, Cust, Whito Leghorns 21 1,192 Master Gordon Wilson,' Shirley, White Leghorns 9 1,060 A. E. Kinnenr, Adelaide, W. Loghorns _ 22 1,162 T. Dowthwaite, Auckland, White Leghorns 21 930 A. Tisch, Dallington, White Leghorns 27 1,291 C. M. Peok, Avondale, W. Leghorns 28 1,20ff A. F. H. Sutherland, Wollingi ton, W. Plymouth Rocks 27 £65 T. Kennedy, Rangiora, W. Wyandottes 30 1,208 A. W. Adams, Sheffield, Silver Wyandottes 31 1,019 W. Scull, Christchurch, B. Wyandottes 15 1,108 W. Nixon, Burwood, White 1 Leghorns 81 v 1,333 ■ Misses M. and M. Bradloy, Papanui, White Leghorns 15 1,297 J. W. Green, St. Albans, White Leghorns 28 1,252 1 1,255 6G.907 FOR DUCKS.

Hetnrnj for the second laying- competition for ducks (forty-eighth week), held under tho auspices of the Now Zealand Utility Poultry Club, are as follow:— Total Total for to ■week. date. Heretaunga. Poultry Co., 811verstream, I. Runners ... 8 1,321 W. Knight, Hurt, I. Runners 1 1,311 W. Knight, Hutt I. Runnors 17 1,125 S. H. Scott, Onehunga, I. • Runners ...'. 0 672 T. Strong, Doyleston, Indian Ruunera ..••••:-. 13 990 S. H. Scott, Onehunga, Indian Runners 12 833 C. Hammond, Ruakura, I Runners ....' • 8 1,095 A. R. Brown©, Greenmeadows, Indian Runners 15 1,185 W. Hodgson, Cheviot, Indian Runnors —• ■•■ * 821 T. Doivthwalte, Avondale, I. Runnors 0 800 T. R. Hall, Weraroa, Indian Runners •••••• 8 1,088 B. A. O'Brien, Waihi, Indian Runners •••»••■■• 8 1,003 P. J. Keller, RoUoston, Indian Runnors 18 1,169 F. Webb, Levin, I. Rnnners... 0 727 115 14,240